Boulevard Of Broken Dreams

The Truth about Truth

How many directors went down this line and made movies I don't know, but it sure got me thinking yesterday. The movies "A Beautiful Mind" and "15 Park Avenue" dealt with a common situation. A person suffering from schizophrenia - something which humans gave as a name to behaving strangely and suffering from hallucinations. Now, what is a hallucination? - again, its a name given by humans to people who can see, feel, hear or taste something which doesn't exist.

How do you say that something exists and another thing doesn't? Humans gave a definition that anything that exists can be felt by atleast one of the five senses that a man has. What if there are other modes of sense that a human doesn't have which can prove the existence of something? Isn't this exactly why people keep dogs as watchman of the house because you know dogs can hear something which humans cannot? Lets assume that 2 people are sitting in a perfectly silent place and one guy says he can hear something distinctly, the other person will just laugh it off if he himself couldnt hear it. What if they had a dog with them and it started barking for something? You would be scared even if you couldn't sense it. What if man hadn't discovered that dogs can hear noises that man cannot? You would definitely say that the dog has lost its mind. It has gone mad.

What if there is some creature that can see things that a man cannot? Wouldn't that be hard to accept? Man wouldnt rest peacefully till someone ventures out to see what its all about and lays down some axioms and proves that there are indeed some creatures which can see things that a man cannot.

The problem occurs when another man himself sees, hears, or feels (rather hallucinates) something which you cannot. Then you consider that man as one of your own kind and say he's lunatic and call him as suffering from a mental illness and try to cure him. What if the man thought it better to keep those things within him? Lets say that the man sees something that doesnt exist but he keeps it to himself. He doesn't say it to anyone. Now, wouldn't you allow him to live peacefully along with others in the community. You wouldn't call him mad, would you?

Man is supposed to be intelligent and he belongs to a very large community. Any man tends to hold an opinion which 99% of the others prove right. But no one could even care about trying to find the truth behind something which a supposedly mad man says. You are so confident you are right. What if someone proved it to you that you were wrong. What is the truth? Who is speaking the truth? Is there any absolute truth that exists in this universe?

posted by sriganesh @ 8:25 PM